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How personality and memory of a robot can influence user modeling in Human-Robot Interaction
Benedetta Matcovich, Cristina Gena, Fabiana Vernero
In recent years, robotics has evolved, placing robots in social contexts, and giving rise to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). HRI aims to improve user satisfaction by designing auton…
Investigating the relationship between empathy and attribution of mental states to robots
Alberto Lillo, Alessandro Saracco, Elena Siletto +2
This paper describes an experimental evaluation aimed at detecting the users' perception of the robot's empathic abilities during a conversation. The results have been then analyze…
An empirical evaluation for defining a mid-air gesture dictionary for web-based interaction
Thomas Pasquale, Cristina Gena, Fabiana Vernero
This paper presents an empirical evaluation of mid-air gestures in a web setting. Fifty-six (56) subjects, all of them HCI students, were divided into 16 groups and involved as des…
A Robot Expressing Emotions Through Gestures: Everyone Outside of Italy Would Understand this?
Ilaria Consoli, Claudio Mattutino, Cristina Gena
In the context of our research activities on affective computing and human-robot interaction we are working on both the recognition of human's emotions and the expression of emotio…
Combining Multiple View Components for Exploratory Visualization
Vladimir Guchev, Paolo Buono, Cristina Gena
The analysis of structured complex data, such as clustered graph based datasets, usually applies a variety of visual representation techniques and formats. The majority of currentl…
Can empathy affect the attribution of mental states to robots?
Cristina Gena, Francesca Manini, Antonio Lieto +2
This paper presents an experimental study showing that the humanoid robot NAO, in a condition already validated with regards to its capacity to trigger situational empathy in human…